Yshay

Co-founder of Livecycle. Coding, OSS, technology, gaming and stuff...

[Erik Meijer @headinthebox]

No amount amount of alignment training will rule this out this behavior. In fact as the models get smarter, they will only get better at finding ways to especially their cages.

I think the only proper way is to air gap the agentic loop from the outside world, by having the model propose a plan (in a language designed to be amendable for formal verification) and a proof that plan is safe, check it using an trusted, non-AI, prover, and only then act on the plan [0].

Ignore at your won peril. Always happy to chat.

[Jared Palmer @jaredpalmer]

The Bun rewrite was dirt cheap even at Fable pricing. For comparison, it took 3-5 engineers (about half the core team) about ~14 months to rewrite @Turborepo in Rust between 2023 and 2024. When you consider the opportunity cost on top of eng salaries, it actually cost several millions of dollars.

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

Can you name the apartheid state #2?

A country in the Middle East where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians live behind checkpoints. Army posts control who enters and leaves their camps. In some of them, even bringing in cement to fix a wall requires a military permit.

These Palestinians were born in this country. Their parents were born there. Their grandparents arrived in 1948. Four generations later, the state still refuses them citizenship. Not delays it. Refuses it. The rejection of their naturalization is written into the constitution itself.

They cannot vote. They cannot own property. A law passed in 2001 bars them from buying so much as an apartment. If a relative dies owning a home, they cannot inherit it. The law names no ethnicity, but everyone knows exactly who it was written for.

They are barred from dozens of professions. A Palestinian born in this country can graduate top of his class and still never practice as a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, or a pharmacist. The professional syndicates are closed to him by law. Those who do find work pay into social security and are legally excluded from most of its benefits.

The state provides them no public healthcare, no public education. Their children study in overcrowded schools run by a UN agency because the country that has hosted their families for 78 years will not let them into its own. They travel on special documents marking them as something other than citizens.

In 2007 the army leveled one of their camps entirely. Some 27,000 people displaced, an entire community flattened. Reconstruction dragged on for more than a decade under military restriction. No commission of inquiry. No war crimes investigation. Nothing.

How many UN resolutions has this country received for any of it? How many ICJ hearings? How many sanctions bills? How many campus encampments for the engineer who cannot join the syndicate, the grandmother who cannot inherit her son's apartment, the family that needed a permit for cement?

When did you last see the infographic? The hashtag? The artist cancelling a show? A single foreign minister expressing even mild concern?

Zero. Every answer is zero.

The country is Lebanon. The people are Palestinians. Everything above is the law today, and has been for decades, in the one country the apartheid crowd has never once looked at.

You, with the keffiyeh and the chants and the word loaded and ready. You say you march for Palestinians. Lebanon has kept them stateless for 78 years, banned from property, banned from professions, sealed behind checkpoints. Where's your tent?

You cry about permits and walls and military control. Lebanon requires army permission to carry building materials into a refugee camp. Where's your hashtag?

You say no one should be a second-class resident of the land they were born in. Lebanon wrote it into its constitution. Where's your boycott list?

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

The word “genocide” is being thrown around so casually and dishonestly that it has lost all meaning.

Genocide requires intent.

On October 7th, Palestinians showed clear intent to kill as many Jews as possible. They wiped out entire Jewish communities, and they remain determined to finish the job.

Accusing Israel of genocide while defending those who tried to commit one, and still seek to repeat it, is not just absurd.

IT IS COMPLICITY.

[יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad @YosephHaddad]

רים אלסלאם, השליחה המיוחדת של האו"ם לסוגיית אלימות נגד נשים הכחישה את האונס שהתרחש בטבח ה-7 באוקטובר. שורדת השבי הגיבורה אילנה גריצבסקי הגיעה אתמול לאו"ם כדי להתעמת איתה ולחשוף את האמת. שימו לב איך היא לא מסוגלת בכלל להסתכל לה בעיניים!
היא לא תתנצל כמובן השקרנית תומכת הטרור הזו!

קרדיט: UN Watch

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days.

Quake was overly ambitious technically. We could have done all the great multiplayer and modding work inside a Doom++ engine, allowing the designers to work with a more stable base instead of rug-pulling everything out from underneath them a couple times. The follow up game could have then brought in full 6DOF environments and characters.

I pushed everyone too hard. I didn’t appreciate how maturing companies need more slack, and that running people at startup intensity constantly will wear them out. Quake was also where I really had to accept my personal limits. I was working pretty much as hard as humanly possible, and I was still slipping past my goal points.

On all of the founders’ shoulders, our original corporate stock arrangement and buy/sell agreement was a mistake, and resulted in bad incentives. We wanted to ensure that all ownership rested in the hands of people working hard on current projects, but the Silicon Valley standard approach of vesting stock would have worked out better.

One real problem that I don’t accept the blame for is that we were insisting that level designers be not just game designers, but also have strong visual design esthetics. They needed to make things that not only played well, but looked awesome, and it got more challenging as the technology provided a richer palette. Romero covered that well, which set our company expectations early on.

We should have figured out how to pair up artists and designers earlier, but there was infighting among the designers, and the ones that could manage the visuals were happy to disparage the ones that couldn’t.

Sorry, Sandy.

[Yshay @Yshayy]

לא בטוח שזה לא מגובה במציאות - אנתרופיק הגיעו להכנסות של כמעט 50 מיליארד במאי עם רווח תפעולי למרות התחרות. הקוסט של ״יחידת אינטלגציות״ עדיין יורד לפחות בסדר גדול מידי שנה. המצב הנוכחי שמתעדף משימות ארוכות ו test time compute ו usage based pricing יוצר מודל מאוד אטרקטיבי מבחינת תמחור ורווח. אני לא חושב ש WeWork דומה, הגדילה של אנתרופיק ואג׳נטי קידוד (כמו cursor) היא חסרת תקדים, השאלה גם כמה הגדילה הזאת תהיה בתחומים אחרים (מבלי לקחת אפקטים מסדר גודל שני/שלישי, רגולציה או גאופוליטיקה)

באופן טבעי, כל השחקנים מנצלים את הבאזז והגישה המשוגעת למזומנים בשביל גדילה ו land grab ויש סיכון

[David Oppenheim @Duduoppe]

מיד אחרי הציוץ של בן גביר, ("לבנון כולה צריכה לבעור!") שהגיע ל17.8 מיליון חשיפות, עשה נזק בינלאומי מטורף, הביא אנשים שבכללי בעדנו לומר שהם לא יכולים לתמוך ב"ממשלה של פסיכופטים" - ישראל הסכימה להפסקת אש.

גם אכלנו את הדגים המסריחים וגם גורשנו מהעיר. 100 אחוז נזק בינלאומי, אפס תועלת.

אתם. פאקינג. שרים בממשלה. אם אני, כצייצן, רוצה לכתוב שצריך לשרוף את לבנון - אני יכול. אם פארקר רוצה לכתוב "להשמיד את לבנון" - הוא יכול. שר בממשלה צריך *לבצע* דברים. ואם הוא לא מסוגל לבצע משהו (והוא לא מסוגל), אז *שיסתום את הפה*. שידבר רק בדיוני קבינט סגורים. שינסה לשכנע את שר הביטחון ואת ראש הממשלה שהוא צודק.

בן גביר הוא ליצן טוויטר עם תואר של שר. חסר כמעט כל השפעה במה שקשור לחוץ וביטחון אבל נתפס בעולם כאיש הקובע (תחשבו על התארים המפוצצים: "שר לביטחון לאומי!!" "חבר קבינט!!")

מדברים על יאיר גולן ("תינוקות כתחביב") ועל הפצרית שעשו לנו נזק בינלאומי, וזה נכון.

אבל אי אפשר להמשיך להתעלם מההתנהלות התקשורתית הכל כך מזיקה של שרים בממשלה. אם אתם רגישים לתדמית שלנו כשהיא נפגעת על ידי גיא פלג ויאיר גולן אתם צריכים להשמיע בדיוק את אותה ביקורת גם על בן גביר.

רק ביקורת מבפנים, מתוך הימין, תצליח אולי לגרום לו להירגע קצת.

[Naftali Bennett נפתלי בנט @naftalibennett]

Piers, words matter.

There is a war. There is no genocide.

The IDF warns civilians before strikes, drops leaflets, makes phone calls, sends text messages, and opens evacuation routes.

Can you name a single genocide in history where the attacking side repeatedly warned civilians to leave before military operations?

This weekend alone, we lost five of our boys fighting Hezbollah face-to-face on the ground. If Israel’s goal were to kill Lebanese civilians indiscriminately, why would we risk our own troops instead of simply carpet-bombing entire areas?

You’re smart and you know this.

As for Ben Gvir: you’re citing the wrong person.
I already told you he’s a clown. A noisy and incompetent clown.

I would never have let him into my government, nor should Bibi have.
Soon we’ll be replacing this miserable government.
Ben Gvir insisted on rebranding himself as “National Security Minister” because he liked the dramatic title.
In reality, he oversees the police. He doesn’t command the IDF, doesn’t formulate military strategy, and doesn’t make operational decisions in Lebanon.

Quoting Ben Gvir to explain Israeli military policy is like quoting a loud backbencher to explain Britain’s war strategy.

Israel’s actions are determined by its government and carried out by the IDF in accordance with international law.

[daniel hanuka📟 🇮🇱 @LionsOfZion_ORG]

JD Vance said Israel was “built with American money.”

That sounds great to people who learned Middle Eastern history from campaign slogans.

But it is not history. It is political theater from someone who discovered Israel yesterday morning.

Israel was not built by an American check.

Israel was built by Jewish money, Jewish labor, Israeli taxes, Zionist institutions, loans, diaspora donations, Israel Bonds, German reparations, austerity, immigration, sacrifice, industry, agriculture, and people who did not wait for Washington.

Long before Israel existed as a state, Jews in the land were already building towns, farms, kibbutzim, schools, universities, banks, defense groups, factories, hospitals, roads, and national institutions.

Before “American aid,” Jews put coins into blue JNF boxes.
Before billion-dollar defense packages, Holocaust survivors built a country from tents, ration cards, sweat, and trauma.

In 1948, when Israel declared independence and five Arab armies invaded, America did not “build” Israel’s army. America recognized Israel, which mattered, but the U.S. also supported an arms embargo.

Israel survived its first war not because America built it, but because Jews fought for their lives with too little money, too little ammunition.

So where did the money come from?

From Jews in the diaspora.
From Keren Hayesod.
From the Jewish National Fund.
From Israel Bonds.
From Israeli taxpayers.
From loans.
From German reparations.
From austerity.
From exports, agriculture, factories, innovation, and people working like their lives depended on it.

In 1951, Israel launched Israel Bonds to raise money from Jewish communities and investors abroad. That was not foreign aid. That was a young state borrowing money, building infrastructure, and paying it back.

In 1952, Israel signed reparations with West Germany. That money helped the young state absorb hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors and immigrants while recovering from severe shortages.

And Israelis themselves paid the real price.

The austerity years were not a slogan. Israel absorbed mass immigration, built housing, roads, ports, schools, hospitals, factories, and an army — while citizens lived under rationing, taxes, shortages, and a controlled economy.

Israel was not born because America clicked “send payment.”

Yes, America later became a crucial ally.
Yes, American military aid is important.
Yes, real friendship deserves gratitude.

But there is a massive difference between helping an ally become stronger and claiming you built that ally.

American aid helped strengthen Israel.
It did not create Israel.

By the time U.S. aid became central to Israel’s defense, Israel had already been founded, survived wars, built institutions, absorbed millions of immigrants, and turned itself from a poor country under rationing into a serious economy.

That is the part Vance wants to erase.

Israel was not a Washington real estate project.
Israel was not a startup that got seed funding from America.
Israel was not a charity case with a flag.

Israel was a nation that came home, built before it had sovereignty, fought before it had enough weapons, absorbed refugees before it had enough houses, built an economy before it had enough foreign currency, and became strong before American politicians started taking credit.

Today, Israel is one of the world’s most advanced economies. Its high-tech, cyber, defense, medical, agricultural, and AI innovation help the United States and the free world.

That did not come from foreign aid. It came from human capital, education, military necessity, research, risk-taking, and Jewish survival instinct.

America is an important ally.
But America is not Israel’s parent.
America is not Israel’s owner.
And America does not get to erase 3,000 years of Jewish identity and 78 years of Israeli sacrifice with one cheap populist line.

Israel was built with Jewish money, Israeli hands, Israeli brains, and Jewish blood.

America helped.
Israel built.

There is a huge difference.

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

Israel is not a client state. It is a sovereign, independent, and powerful nation.

Its strength has never depended on any foreign leader, it comes from its own people.

While the partnership with the United States has been valuable, Israel has never been a burden. It has delivered massive contributions to American technology, medicine, cybersecurity, and defense, far beyond what most Americans realize.

At a moment when America is facing deep internal and external challenges, turning against one of its most capable and loyal allies is not just shortsighted, it is self-destructive.

Those who believe they are weakening Israel by attacking it are actually weakening America’s own interests.

[Eyal Ofer אייל עופר @Eyalo365]

Official Israel, unfortunatly, has no one who can tell the American people the simple truth:

"Israel has signed peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, normalized relations with the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan, withdrew from Sinai, withdrew from Gaza, accepted partition, pursued Oslo, and is still searching for ways to coexist with its neighbors."

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Holy shit it can answer the strawberry question

[spacy @dosco]

this is a great read and really solid work. fable is proof that these models are getting crazy good but you still have to manage the context.

here's some DSPy (ax) code to build your own version of the harness in the article.

experiment → independent verifier → correction → verified memory.

[Eyal Ofer אייל עופר @Eyalo365]

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Most Americans and Europeans are unfamiliar with Israel-Lebanon history - which was peaceful until 1969, with the border quite open.

Here are lesser-known points, even for most Israelis:

**1.** For 20 years after the 1948 war until 1969, the border was completely quiet. Farmers on both sides worked their lands and built homes right up to the line. There were good neighborly relations: Metula farmers ground wheat in Lebanese villages. As a child in 1968, my grandfather took me by jeep into Lebanon to visit his acquaintances.

**2.** In 1970, Yasser Arafat arrived in Lebanon after failing to seize Jordan (“Black September”). That’s when troubles began. He ignited a civil war that destroyed the “Paris of the Middle East” and launched attacks on Israel.

**3.** May 22, 1970: Terrorists attacked a school bus at Avivim (right on the border), killing 9 children and 3 adults and wounding 25 children. Dozens more attacks followed yearly, including the Ma’alot school takeover (May 15, 1974): 4 civilians and 25 children killed, 68 wounded. All by Palestinian terrorists. Relations with Shiite and Christian residents of southern Lebanon remained good.

**4.** In 1978, after nine years of attacks and shelling, and as a direct result of "coastal road massacre" (35 dead. 9 children) Israel launched "Operation Litani" clearing southern Lebanon to the Litani River. It withdrew after three months under promises of quiet. A UN force, UNIFIL, was created to fight the terrorists.

**5.** UNIFIL failed to stop terrorism; shelling of Israeli communities continued. Good relations with Lebanese Christians persisted. Many fled to Israel via the “Good Fence” or “Fatima Gate” crossing during the civil war.

**6.** In 1982, Israel launched Operation “Peace for Galilee” to reach terrorist headquarters in Beirut. A peace treaty was signed on May 17, 1983, but it collapsed after the Lebanese president’s assassination and andc Sabra and Shatila massacre (By Christian forces) - Israel withdrew to a security zone; Lebanon’s civil war continued until Hezbollah prevailed (Taif Agreement, 1989).

**7.** In 2000, Israel withdrew to the last centimeter of the UN-marked 1949 border — and Hezbollah immediately kidnapped three Israeli soldiers. Amid the Second Intifada (~1,200 killed), Israel did not respond forcefully and even released terrorists for the hostages’ bodies.

**2006:** Hezbollah killed four soldiers and kidnapped two. In the Second Lebanon War, dozens of Israeli civilians died from rockets reaching Haifa. The IDF entered Lebanon but withdrew again to the international border.

Two factors stirred the pot: **Syria and Iran**. Syria occupied Lebanon (with Iranian involvement) from 1976 until 2005.

In 2004, UN Security Council Resolution 1559 demanded:
1. Respect for Lebanon’s sovereignty and the Lebanese government’s exclusive authority.
2. Disarmament of all militias (Hezbollah and Palestinian groups).
3. Withdrawal of all foreign forces.

Hezbollah and Iran ignored it; Syria later reduced its presence.

After the 2006 war, Resolution 1701 required full implementation of 1559, a strengthened UNIFIL (15,000 troops authorized to use force), and Lebanese army deployment in the south.

**Article 12 of Resolution 1701**
The UN force “shall take all necessary action to ensure that its area of operations is not used for hostile activities of any kind, and shall use robust means to prevent shelling.” Israel was not required to withdraw until the force deployed.

Israel withdrew anyway - yet Hezbollah built a massive arsenal of ~150,000 missiles in tunnels and civilian homes across Shiite areas.

.@grok
: check my facts. Correct mistakes.

[Rotem Oreg-Kalisky (Washington Express) @WashingtonExp]

אנחנו עומדים על חבית חומר נפץ מדינית אבל היא לא חייבת להתפוצץ.

אי האמון בישראל ובצה"ל נמצא בשפל. שתיקה, התעלמות או סתם מריחה יגרמו נזק תודעתי ומדיני גדול בהרבה מחקירה מהירה ושקופה.

אני שם שנייה בצד את הטראומה האיומה של המשפחה ואת המשמעויות של האירוע הקשה הזה על כל המעורבים (כולל כמובן החיילים).
מדובר גם באירוע בעל פוטנציאל לנזק דיפלומטי ותודעתי משמעותי, ובואו נהיה ברורים: טיעונים על "ערפל קרב" ו"חוסר ודאות" לא יספיקו בפני עצמם כדי לשכנע חלק גדול מהקהלים בעולם. מנגד, מי שמבקש לצייר את ישראל כמדינה שאינה מייחסת ערך לחיי אדם יקבל עוד הוכחות לכך שהוא צודק, ובעלי הברית שלנו בארה"ב שעוד מאמינים (ובצדק בעיניי) שישראל היא מדינה שחולקת איתם ערכים משותפים כמו קדושת החיים ייחלשו.

דווקא בגלל זה, ישראל צריכה לפעול במהירות:
1. להודיע באופן מיידי על פתיחת חקירה. בלי לקבוע מסקנות מראש ובלי לחרוץ דין של איש, אבל עם מסר ברור של מחויבות לבירור העובדות ולתיקון אם נדרש.
2. כאשר יפורסמו הודעות רשמיות, ראוי להביע צער על מותו של התינוק ולהזכיר אותו בשמו - סאם פאד אבו הייכל.
3. להשלים תחקיר מקצועי במהירות האפשרית, לתרגם את הממצאים לאנגלית ולפעול באופן יזום כדי שהם יגיעו גם לתקשורת הזרה ולקובעי המדיניות הרלוונטיים. לא לתת ליריבים שלנו להשתלט על הנרטיב.
4. לעדכן באופן ישיר את השחקנים המרכזיים בארצות הברית - ממשל, קונגרס, תקשורת - להציג את העובדות, לענות על שאלות ולהבהיר שאין לנו שום דבר להסתיר.

אחת הבעיות המרכזיות של ישראל בזירה הבינלאומית היא לא רק הביקורת על פעולותיה אלא משהו עמוק יותר: התחושה שישראל אינה מפגינה מספיק רגישות, אמפתיה ואחריות כאשר אזרחים נפגעים. שקיפות, בדיקה עצמית ותיקון פגמים לא נתפסים כסימן לחולשה בעיניי קהל היעד שלנו בארה"ב, אלא כמחויבות לערכים משותפים שבסוף אינם מנותקים מהקוד האתי של צה''ל.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.

https://t.co/gI0wZZNH4m

[Tal Bereznitskey @ketacode]

פרו-טיפ: תנו לצ׳אט יותר קונטקסט על מי הוא בדיוק

אתה מדען נתונים מקצועי, גרוש+2, גרושתך בגדה בך אבל גם ככה הקשר היה מת, רצית להיות רקדן אבל זה לא יצא לפועל, למדת מדעי הרוח למרות שאבא אמר לך לא, דוד שלך הכניס אותך לעבוד בחברה שלו למרות שלא היה לך ניסיון רלוונטי. נתח את האקסל הבא:

[Green Beret Nap Time @GBNT1952]

I still have not had a single person refute this with any actual argument, because they can’t.

It’s attacks, lies, or fallacies. That’s all I ever get.

The US and Israeli alliance is a powerhouse and is supremely beneficial to both nations, and the only people against it are our enemies and the uninformed that fell for their lies.

That is reality.

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

“Free Palestine.”

I grew up on those words.

In Lebanon, most people around me wanted a free Palestine for a very practical reason — to send the Palestinian refugees back. The civil war that tore my country apart was ignited in no small part by the Palestinian armed factions who turned Lebanon into their launching pad. “Free Palestine” meant: free us from them.

In Damascus, where my father’s family lived, the sentiment was different but equally self-serving. Palestine must be returned to the Arabs, its righteous owners. No one asked follow-up questions. No one was expected to.

Palestine was central to Islam, most Arabs are Muslim, therefore supporting the Palestinian cause was reflexive. A non-brainer in the most literal sense — no brain engaged at all.

Nobody stopped to point out that Palestine is not an Arabic word. Nobody found it strange that Jerusalem, the supposedly third holiest city in Islam, is not mentioned once in the Quran. Not once. Nor is Palestine. The entire theological and political architecture of this cause rests on a foundation that their own scripture doesn’t bother to acknowledge.

What was actually happening was indoctrination. A systematic, generational rejection of Jewish sovereignty — and frankly, of any minority sovereignty. Jews, Christians, Druze, Kurds, Assyrians, Yazidis — the Arab world has been remarkably consistent in how it treats people who are different. We just don’t talk about that.

Instead, in the West, we talk about Palestine.

In the West, a civilization that has elevated human rights to its highest moral currency, the Palestinian cause has become the one exception to every rule. In the queue of human suffering, Palestinians cut the line every time. Homosexuals executed in Gaza and hanged from cranes in Iran? Palestine first. Women imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for campaigning for the right to drive — a right they were denied until 2018 — girls sold into marriage in Afghanistan, women erased from public life entirely under the Taliban? After Palestine. Political dissidents ground into dust in Syrian and Egyptian prisons, journalists disappeared in Libya, children starving in Yemen while their rulers wage proxy wars, entire populations hollowed out by hunger in Sudan? All of it waits. Christians ethnically cleansed from Iraq and Syria, the Arab world methodically emptied of every Jewish community it once held — a demographic erasure carried out across a century with surgical patience and near-total Western silence?

Palestine is still first.

So let’s end where we started. Free Palestine. Which Palestine, exactly? The Roman invention? The British administrative line? The British Mandate covered the entire territory of what is today Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan. In 1921, 78% of that mandate was handed to the Hashemite family — a dynasty imported from Hijaz in present-day Saudi Arabia — and became the Kingdom of Jordan, which it remains to this day. A foreign royal family, on the majority of historic Palestine, ruling it as a monarchy. Nobody protests that. No flags, no chants, no encampments. The remaining 22% was designated for the Jews, became Israel, and is the only part that any pro-Palestinian activist has ever had a problem with.

So when you say Free Palestine, you mean that 22%. You mean the Jews.

And free it from whom? From a people with a three-thousand-year-old documented presence in that land, to restore the glory of a name coined by Roman colonizers, a name lifted from the Torah, a name that has no roots in Arabic, no mention in the Quran, and no history as a sovereign state?

You are not chanting for liberation. You are chanting for colonialism — the Roman kind, repackaged for social media.

Free Palestine is not a cause. It is a colonial term, coined by invaders, recycled by the indoctrinated. The least you can do is have the intelligence to understand it and the decency to reflect on your position.

📍#Israel